Re: why not warn for miswritten Make $() functions?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden (Dan Jacobson) writes:

  dj> In make
  dj>   echo $(addprefix xxx,mmmm)
  dj> is the right was do use addprefix.  But why don't I see any warnings
  dj> when I do 
  dj>   echo $(addprefix,xxx,mmmm)
  dj> Why not warn instead of in one ear and out the other, hear no evil,
  dj> see no evil...?

Because there is absolutely nothing wrong with either of those two
invocations, and so no way that make can determine that you made a
mistake.

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